More Hopeful Futures and United WayPreparing for the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading's next phase

PostJuly 9, 2015

Sacramento is one of the first regions in California named
as a member of the Pacesetter Cohort for the More Hopeful Futures
(MHF) initiative. MHF will be the next phase of the Campaign for
Grade-Level Reading (CGLR) with a primary goal to
ensure that by 2020, ONE MILLION more children in low-income
families will be reading proficiently by the end of the third
grade.

As part of the Pacesetter Cohort, United Way California Capital
Region and 50 Fund, the legacy fund of the San Francisco Bay Area
Super Bowl 50 Host Committee, will initiate its planning and
development phase in fall 2015 and move toward implementation in
the spring of 2016. CGLR, cohort participants, and community
partners will road test plans that will reach the early goal of
helping 50,000 more children on the path to becoming proficient
readers by 2018.

More specifically, as part of this goal, United Way expects to
see 15 percent fewer children starting school with undetected
developmental delays, physical ailments and vision and hearing
impairments; 15 percent fewer children missing school
due to asthma and tooth pain; 25 percent of children
participating will enhance their reading skills over the summer
rather than falling behind.

Check back often for updates on our progress.

About the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading

United Way became the lead convener of the Campaign for
Grade-Level Reading in 2014. The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
is a nationwide initiative dedicated to empowering young children
to read at grade-level by the end of the third grade.

Research shows that proficiency in reading by the end of third
grade enables students to shift from learning to read to reading
to learn, and to master the more complex subject matter they
encounter in the fourth grade curriculum.

If you are interested in getting involved with the Campaign for
Grade-Level Reading, please contact Donna Mobley at 916-856-3917
or
email.